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Franken Fran is the work of Katsuhisa Kigitsu (probably his debut work, probably a med student as well ), is seralized in Champion Red(MangaHelpers).

From OneManga:
Fran can make anyone into anything, raise the dead, switch heads and bodies and give you those eyes that you've always wanted. But do you actually want them? Is it a good thing to raise the dead? Do the ends justify the means? And does Fran care?

I actually like this series, very,VERY reminiscent of Pet Shop of Horrors. Anyway I made this topic to simply ask a question for someone else who might be reading it. WTH happened in chapter 13 ?!? The first time I read it I didn't understand, but I haven't had a chance to re-read it until today(did it after reading the newly released chap 14) and I STILL don't understand.

Spoiler for chap 13:

So I understand the deal with the mitosis Youkas and how they had to be killed, so how did Kuho?(the woman cop) ended up as mulitples too? Maybe I should read it again, i don't know what I'm missing. Perhaps somone can give me a good explanation of what happened?

She was genetically modified by Fran to be able to "sniff out" the Youka clones, and hunt them down instinctively. Essentially, Fran made her a "hunter" and Youka a "prey," and by multiplying the hunters she could keep the preys from overcrowding the world with their overactive mitosis self-reproduction.

After her job is finished and all the Youka clones are exterminated and the mitosis gene removed from the one survivor (I'm not sure if the survivor is the real thing or not), Fran somehow gathered the cop girl clones together for a battle royale so the survivor can become the real cop girl again. The survivor, of course, have all memories of this process removed, supposedly also with her own mitosis gene and her "hunter instincts" (though with Fran you never know), and she thought she was the real thing and the whole bloody affair is just a nightmare.

Pure evil.

Chapter 14 is just classic. The "little sister" has been taught what it means to be really, really terrifying.

Admittedly though, I like it better when Fran is actually a nice girl and not a nice horrifying-evil-scientist girl. The chapter where she helped the little girl was my favorite. Aww, *group hugs*.

She was genetically modified by Fran to be able to "sniff out" the Youka clones, and hunt them down instinctively. Essentially, Fran made her a "hunter" and Youka a "prey," and by multiplying the hunters she could keep the preys from overcrowding the world with their overactive mitosis self-reproduction.

After her job is finished and all the Youka clones are exterminated and the mitosis gene removed from the one survivor (I'm not sure if the survivor is the real thing or not), Fran somehow gathered the cop girl clones together for a battle royale so the survivor can become the real cop girl again. The survivor, of course, have all memories of this process removed, supposedly also with her own mitosis gene and her "hunter instincts" (though with Fran you never know), and she thought she was the real thing and the whole bloody affair is just a nightmare.

Pure evil.

Thanks for explaining it, makes sense now. When those other cops clones appeared there, it completely me. I assumed since they never mentioned anything about cloning her, it never happened, so that blinded me to that conclusion.

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Originally Posted by Irenicus

Chapter 14 is just classic. The "little sister" has been taught what it means to be really, really terrifying.

Admittedly though, I like it better when Fran is actually a nice girl and not a nice horrifying-evil-scientist girl. The chapter where she helped the little girl was my favorite. Aww, *group hugs*.

Spoiler for chap 14:

Yeah, when it comes down to Fran, you're like . You'd think dying would be the easy way out, but Fran, always with the "modifications" to people, is definitely more frightening than an instant, painless death. I'm sure we'll be seeing more of Veronica(and how she's handling that chip Fran implanted) soon .

The "nice horrifying-evil-scientist girl" aspect is what makes her so fun . At least when she does it unintentionally, like chap 2, and not like, say chap 5.

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Originally Posted by Mizuno

This manga is pretty messed up, but strangely I liked ch2 the most. Mixed of ecchi and gore makes things easier to digest (no pun intended).

I didn't know at first either, until I realized there's a hidden translation note after the chapter.

They suggested that it was a variation of Yuki Onna (snow woman). Although there's no snow and the scenary is all green... but I agree it's a type of mystical creature that slowly drains men's energy away through kisses (similar to that of a succubus).

The long hair, stunning beauty, and her cold body also suggests this.

And I definitely like this chapter too, up there with ch2 since they even brought folklore into the mix, the nude shot was a plus.

In my sense, i can see every chapter have its own lessons that want to catch readers attention, even when they are all quite crazy. (I always the type who think so much through so not so confident with these).

This manga is a masterpiece in its own way, (even when the mangaka intentionally do it or not), and it does leave me speechless with mixed emotions of sad, happy, ridiculous, scared, freak out...etc...
It's madness (and the most wacky ones are chapter 2 and 5, no doubt)

It's not my first time experiencing these kinds of things. But as manga , it helps to digest a bit (image if it was a movie i doubt if can stand for 5 mins)

PS: i hope i won't have nightmare tonight

Extra notes: I know it is ridiculous but some how I think Fran is quite 'moe' in a weird sense @_@ even when her scars ruined her face badly. I probably can't bear the thought of adding her into my likable character list, but there are probably some secret fanbases lurking around internet by now

Does anybody else think Fran is cute? Cause i sure do. Even though shes a mad scientist she is only trying to help people, she asks whether they really want to go through with it multiple times, so its their fault if they say "Yes" to every response. The Extra episode where they made the movie was kinda ecchi in its own way with the "Your tearing me apart" "aaah"....man, was that ever perverted. Though what was actually going on was completely different. I liked the way her face was when she was in the movie, it was pretty cute.

I guess the motto to the story is 'be careful what you wish for'. Chapter 7 reminded me a bit of the Monkey's Paw which I read as a kid, where the parents was wishing the son to come back after he got into a messy accident and he came back as a monster.

I won't argue that Fran wants to 'save' lives, but the way she does it is twisted. Like in the recent chapter, she basically sewed back all the torn bodies together, that's just messed up. She obviously can't see that people being 'brought back to life' are in a living hell. Which begs the question, does Fran have a human heart, not the physical one but does she even understand the feelings of others?

The only thing that can be more messed up is her performing experiments on herself.

Just to let you guys know (I randomly saw this thread on google as I was lurking for fran fan art, which there is a surprisingly large amount). We've actually decided to clarify the eye chapter with what we believe to be the true nature of the girl that the artist sees.

We believe her to be the same kind of creature as Saya from Saya no Uta.

Support Reason (from a forum post at SC that brought this to our attention:
>The story is match perfectly.
- The protagonist has abnormal perception from surgery.
- He found a beautiful girl.
>Left 3rd picture from above in page 17 is show something. I assume that it is part of mysterious girl's real form

Clearly I don't play enough weird bishoujo games or I would have noticed this. I've been meaning to add an explanation page to the recent releases for well over 2 months with this information for everyone to read... hopefully I won't forget this time.

So I been catching up with this manga since I don't know when but not that I am too much of a fan of Yandere. The series is somewhat entertaining, and not that I really get any feelings from reading gore but yea. Anyways Fran is definitely not as awesome as Saya in my opinions.

Which Saya ? May I ask?
She is not Yandere in my dictionary; but well i may be wrong

PS:*Hi5 as an Misaki Fan*

沙耶 from Saya no Uta. You probably getting the wrong one, the series is famous for her as Yandere and much moe... at least to me. The game isn't translated in English just so you know. Well someone brought it up in the upper post saying Fran and Saya is the same species so I commented on it.